DAVID L BRISTOW lives in Lincoln, where he is editor of Nebraska History. He is the author of
A Dirty Wicked Town: Tales of 19th Century Omaha (Caxton Press) and
The Sky Sailors: True Stories of the Balloon Era (forthcomiong from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux).
He is the former managing editor of
Nebraska Life magazine and is working on a novel.